![]() ![]() It was incredibly sophisticated and complex and had taken on a few forms already, none of which felt quite right. They had been building this new product for a few months. In the meeting, they explained they were exploring ideas around publishing platforms. Geoff and Jon Lax flew out to San Francisco to meet with Jason Goldman and Ev to hear more about what Obvious was doing and how Teehan+Lax might be able to help. This time it was about doing some work together. A Second DateĪ month or so passed and we eventually heard back from Obvious. A meeting that ends without a next step is usually not a good sign, but it was hard not to be pleased (and thankful) to have spent the time chatting about things we were both passionate about. While I don’t have anything right now, I’m excited at the prospect of finding something to work on together”. The meeting ended with Ev saying, “Well, it was great to meet you. The three of them all recently liberated from their senior roles at Twitter. In 2011, after stepping away from the day-to-day running of Twitter, Ev “re-started” Obvious with longtime collaborators Biz Stone and Jason Goldman. –Ev Williams “ Obvious Next Step” evhead, March 29, 2011 In spring of 2008, I was fully sucked in by the Twitter tornado, serving full time as chief product officer at first and then CEO, which I did for two years.” In theory, Obvious could then pursue new projects, but I spent more of my time as active Twitter chairman, which included everything from helping raise funds to coding. When Twitter started to really take off, a year after it started, we spun it into its own corporation and made Jack the CEO. Twitter didn’t have much traction either, so we shed Odeo, Inc. It spent its first six months as a side project of Odeo, a company I was running that didn’t have a lot of traction. It may not be widely known that Obvious is the company that created Twitter. It wasn’t clear to us just yet, but it would be soon enough. Most of it revolved around the future of publishing. The last 20 minutes were spent talking about what Obvious were thinking about. It was intimidating to meet the guy who is partly responsible for blogging (Blogger) and of course, Twitter.įor a good portion of the meeting we talked about what we did, how we did it, our company structure, who we worked with and what we were working on We had recently released TweetMag and had a prototype of Readability for iPad that we gave a quick demo of. Ev had hinted that we would talk about what he may be working on next. Just an hour blocked in a calendar for a chat. The following week Geoff Teehan found himself standing outside a most unassuming US Bank building in the city’s Mission district. It was September of 2011, and that DM quickly led to others where Ev asked if we’d be in San Francisco anytime soon. If you have thoughts to share that you want to impact or influence people with-beyond just your friends and beyond 140 characters-we want to provide the tools and the place. What kind of ideas? Many kinds: A particular viewpoint on the happenings of the day (or of the past), hard-earned knowledge about how to do something better, a story that makes people laugh, smile, or feel something meaningful. While it continues to be more and more efficient to put media-type stuff out there, we think there are big improvements to be made in a particular type of media “stuff”: That which is not necessarily personal and not necessarily news. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushing from smartphones, corporations, and new-fangled media startups onto the Internet, available for the world to see. There is plenty of media in the world already. ![]()
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